Hybrid Photonic Integration on a Polymer Platform

Photonics

Ziyang Zhang⁴  David Felipe⁴  Vasilis Katopodis⁵  Panos Groumas⁵  Christos Kouloumentas⁵  Hercules Avramopoulos⁵  Jean-Yves Dupuy³  Agnieszka Konczykowska³  Alberto Dede²  Antonio Beretta²  Antonello Vannucci²  Giulio Cangini¹  Raluca Dinu¹  Detlef Schmidt⁴  Martin Moehrle⁴  Patrick Runge⁴  Jung-Han Choi⁴  Heinz-Gunter Bach⁴  Norbert Grote⁴  Norbert Keil⁴ 

[1] GigOptix Inc., 19910 North Creek Parkway Suite 100, Bothell, WA 98011, USA; E-Mails:;Linkra Srl, Via S. Martino 7, Agrate Brianza (MB) 20864, Italy; E-Mails:;III-V Lab, Joint lab between Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Thales-TRT and CEA/Leti, Route de Nozay, Marcoussis 91460, France; E-Mails:;Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Einsteinufer 37, Berlin 10587, Germany; E-Mails:;Photonic Communications Research Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Athens 15573, Greece; E-Mails:

关键词: hybrid photonic integration;    photonic integrated circuits;    polymer waveguides;   

DOI  :  10.3390/photonics2031005

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

To fulfill the functionality demands from the fast developing optical networks, a hybrid integration approach allows for combining the advantages of various material platforms. We have established a polymer-based hybrid integration platform (polyboard), which provides flexible optical input/ouptut interfaces (I/Os) that allow robust coupling of indium phosphide (InP)-based active components, passive insertion of thin-film-based optical elements, and on-chip attachment of optical fibers. This work reviews the recent progress of our polyboard platform. On the fundamental level, multi-core waveguides and polymer/silicon nitride heterogeneous waveguides have been fabricated, broadening device design possibilities and enabling 3D photonic integration. Furthermore, 40-channel optical line terminals and compact, bi-directional optical network units have been developed as highly functional, low-cost devices for the wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network. On a larger scale, thermo-optic elements, thin-film elements and an InP gain chip have been integrated on the polyboard to realize a colorless, dual-polarization optical 90° hybrid as the frontend of a coherent receiver. For high-end applications, a wavelength tunable 100Gbaud transmitter module has been demonstrated, manifesting the joint contribution from the polyboard technology, high speed polymer electro-optic modulator, InP driver electronics and ceramic electronic interconnects.

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